[RKDinOKC]

I'd be happy to give my observation in terms I hope everyone can understand.

I mowed lawns when I was a teen. I made a LOT of money mowing lawns. I charged half what everyone else charged if you let me mow once a week instead of every 2 weeks like most did. $7 as opposed to $15. Because I mowed more often I could mulch the clippings and did not have any grass clippings to bag and take care of. I also edged before I mowed, then used the first swath around the edges to pickup and discharge the edging clippings onto the lawn so they could be mulched as well. One guy stayed home from work because he wanted to see how I mowed and edged his back yard without getting clippings in the pool. Not only a cleaner job, I could do a typical yard in 20 minutes as opposed to an hour or longer. I had 46 lawns I mowed on a weekly basis. That was only 15 hours and 20 minutes a week. Was making $300 bucks a week when minimum wage was just over $1.

Now I have neighborhood teens and my newphew's teens mow my yard. Not because I can't or don't have time, I like to feel like I am helping them like I was helped. Every teen that has mowed my yard I tell them how I used mow and the trick of mowing once a week and edging first so I didn't need a leaf blower to clean the edges. Not one of them offered to do my hard for half and mow weekly. They came by every other week or longer and spent much more time mowing my yard. None of them changed to edging first and using the mower to clean up the edges and used a blower. And every one of them let the grass get so tall it had to be caught and bagged also taking longer and left bags for me to haul to the curb on trash day. Every one of these teen quit mowing lawns and I see them working someplace like Walmart. I myself never got a job like that because I could make more money and in less time mowing yards.

That is what is wrong with America today. Ignorance does not know something. Stupid not only does not know, but does not learn.

I've also watch my local Independent Porsche shop. The owner and 2 mechanics retired. This left the son that was doing most of the work and only 1 other mechanic. He has tried over and over to hire mechanics. The problem is not that they don't know how to do the work. hey have a computer program that shows exactly what to do. The problem is they would rather talk, text, and socialize than work. I think that falls under stupid.